Nocton No. 1 / Nochetune

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design element - motifs - ball

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2007 by Elisabeth Murray

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - triple

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints, Nocton. All Saints is the finest Gothic Revival church in Lincolnshire. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Built on the site of a previous Georgian church, it was completed in 1872. Viewed from the well-kept churchyard."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2008 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/811418] [accessed 1 May 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/27241742710] [accessed 1 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2007 by Elisabeth Murray

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view of font in context

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2007 by Elisabeth Murray

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12725NOC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: The Green, Nocton LN4 2BG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1526 322323

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the B1202, 11 km SE of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Langoe

Font Location in Church: Reported in the churchyard ca. 1989 -- still there in 2007 [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Cognate Fonts: The font at Ardington, in Oxfordshire, has a row of ball-flower motif all around the underbowl

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Elisabeth Murray, for the photographs of this font.

Church Notes: church reported here in Domesday survey, believed to have been on a site immediately SW of Nocton Hall; the 12thC abbey was located a mile east of the village; the parish church was re-built near the Hall but illegally demolished in the 18thC by the Hall owners, its replacement built to the southwest of the Hall

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There are two entries for Nocton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0664/nocton/] [accessed 1 May 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "The C14 font, plain octagonal with ball-flower skirt, is in the churchyard S of the church." [NB: Pevsner & al. (ibid.) note also: "The present font is square, of Caen stone on a short octagonal base, with stumpy green marble columns at the angles", probably the Victorian replacement font from Sir Gilbert Scott's renovation of the 1860s]. The entry for the church here in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0606764125 ] notes: "Parish Church. 1862 designed by Sir G G Scott [...] Square Caen stone font on green marble columns." The Parish web site [www.allsaintsnocton.org.uk] [accessed 9 June 2007] notes: "To the right of the south porch, in the church yard, is the mediaeval parish font dating from the 14th century, an octagonal bowl now full of flowers." [NB: the location of the old font in the churchyard was confirmed to BSI on 9 June 2007 by Elisabeth Murray, secretary to the PCC, Nocton All Saints', who kindly sent photographs of the object]. The font is not of a common type: the basin is octagonal and has a very large triple moulding at the upper rim, plain sides and a less protruding moulding on the lower basin side; the underbowl -we are unable to confirm whether or not this piece is part of the basin- has been carved to resemble a row of balls all around [NB: they appear to be plain round balls, not ball-flowers, as described in the sources above]; the lower piece below the balls appears to be broken, but it could have been the original plinth; there is no stem or upper base section, although there probably was one originally. [NB: the font at Ardington, in Oxfordshire, has a row of ball-flower motif all around the underbowl].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.16422, -0.4144

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 9′ 51.19″ N, 0° 24′ 51.84″ W

UTM: 30U 672845 5893661

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989